Post card. Baton Rouge Bridge over the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, La. The Baton Rouge Bridge over the Mississippi was completed in 1940. It required three years in building and cost the State of Louisiana 10 million dollars. As with all...

Postcard: "Confederate Monument, Baton Rouge, La. 1865". Located on North Boulevard at Third Street. Built by the Confederate Monument Association, the cornerstone was laid in 1886 and the monument was unveiled on August 5, 1890.

Do you know the story of how John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces was published? As part of the Baton Rouge Room Lecture Series, Mary Katherine Callaway, Director of LSU Press, will talk about the story behind the story.

The Black Man in the Civil War. Taken from Charles H. Wesley and Patricia W. Romero, International Library of Negro Life and History; Negro Americans in the Civil War. Published in Baton Rouge as part of the American Bicentennial celebration. Ca....

Post card, State Capitol, Baton Rouge and New Huey P. Long Bridge, New Orleans. Louisiana's two greatest monuments conceived and built by the late U.S. Senator Huey P. Long. The Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest building in the south. 34...

Postcard: "Moonlight on the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, La." Reverse reads "The Mississippi River, 'Father of Waters' 2459 miles long, and the longest river in the world, 4200 miles, when taking the Missouri as the trunk stream, 250...